Park Lot 23

Montrose Avenue to Shaw Street

Granted to Captain George Spencer of the Queen’s Rangers, 4 September 1793. In the York Report, Spencer was listed as not resident and recommended for Park Lot 20. The York Report also recommended that Æneas Shaw get Park Lot 23.

Above: This detail of the patent plan of York Township shows the narrow 100-acre Park Lots stretching between today's Queen Street and Bloor Street. A patent plan was an important working document in the surveyor's office showing the land ownership. Perhaps as early as 1796, this plan certainly dates from prior to 1834 when the Town of York changed to the City of Toronto. (Patent Plans, “York Township”, [178?]-[ca. 1978], Archives of Ontario, RG 1-100)